CHINA
NOTEBOOK
Photographys B.H.JIANG
Texts by E.R.BEARDSLEY
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have digital representatives of more than a hundred photographs made by
Mr. Jiang over several years, including photographs of many more children
and adults, a record of a harvest festival for Tibetan (made on one of his
excursions outside Guangdong Province to Szechwan Provice in Central China), |
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a very interesting group of color photographs of "boat people"
and "peasants" made in Yangchun on the Muyang river.Newspaper
and magazine reports tell me that the rivers yield few fish nowadays because
most are polluted owing to over-population and rapid industrial development.
How these people might make a life, then, becomes a puzzle. Most of the
children photographed live in a remote village called Pingshi, |
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is about 150 miles west of Guangzhou, and part of a district called "Yubei"
-- described by Mr. Jiang as a region stretching from Lianan (near Qingyuan
in the east) to Pingshi (near Shaoguan in the west). The people of this
area do in fact belong to minority groups, he told me later. The government
refers to them simply as either the "Red Group" or the "White
Group." |
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